Chen, CherylLowmanstone, London2021-07-1920212021-06-042021Lowmanstone, London. 2021. Computational Empathy. Bachelor's thesis, Harvard College.28411122https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37368589In our current environment, computers behave in ways that are unexpectedly different from humans. However, the term “empathy” is defined in relation to human behavior, not computer behavior. Thus, until the general public becomes used to computer behavior, we should be wary of using the term “empathy” to describe computer systems, which may act in unexpected ways for something that is considered to have empathy. This point is illustrated through the creation of machine learning models which have a particular type of empathy that is only exhibited for inputs inside of their training set.application/pdfenArtificial IntelligenceComputationComputersEmotionEmpathyComputer sciencePhilosophyThesis or Dissertation2021-07-19